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		<title><![CDATA[Music Biz Appoints An Anti-Piracy Tsar]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Perhaps a recognition that even governments&#8217; plans to suspend freeloaders&#8217; internet accounts won&#8217;t kill piracy&#8230; record labels, via their International Federation for the Phonographic Industry umbrella, are beefing up their anti-piracy efforts.The IFPI is promoting its head of internet anti-piracy Jeremy Banks to be its first ever director of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:12:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Label hunts hackers who stole Lewis/Timberlake song]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Record label SyCo and music trade body IFPI have called in the police to help them hunt down computer hackers who leaked a track by Leona Lewis and Justin Timberlake on the Internet. The song, "Don't Let Me Down," is being considered as the first single release...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:08:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Walt Disney Records' High School Musical Audio Franchise Makes Global Chart History for Second Consecutive Year]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disney's High School Musical 2 Soundtrack is Ranked the No. 1 Best Selling Album of 2007 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI  BURBANK, Calif. -- The High School Musical audio franchise from Walt Disney Records is the No. 1 best-selling album globally for the second consecutive...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Global music companies in fresh China piracy suit]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SHANGHAI AFP &#8212; Three of the world's most influential music labels launched fresh legal action against China's top Internet search engine Baidu for pirating music files, the recording industry's trade body said.  In a filing with a Beijing court, Universal Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment Hong Kong and Warner...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chinese websites &#39;helping piracy&#39;]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business News IN BRIEF   --The record industry has launched a series of lawsuits against China's biggest internet companies, accusing them of offering direct links to pirated music. Companies named in the suits include Baidu and Yahoo! China. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has claimed that 99...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[U2 manager nails Internet providers as piracy culprits]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CANNES, France AFP &#8212; Paul McGuinness, U2's manager for three decades, says it's time for Internet service providers to play a part in the war on music piracy and share their profits with the people who make the music.  "Their snouts have been at our trough feeding free for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Online music sales grow 40 percent in 2007: IFPI]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON AFP &#8212; Global sales of music online rose by 40 percent in 2007, confirming the soaring popularity of legal Internet-based music stores, said an industry report published Thursday.  Online sales of music totalled an estimated 2.9 billion dollars (1.9 billion euros) last year, said the International Federation of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SuperPro Vending Seeks Suitable Acquisition Candidate to Enter Multi-Billion Dollar Entertainment Industry]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SuperPro Vending Group, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SPVG) is pleased to announce that it is exploring a number of companies that meet its acquisition criteria, and is targeting companies engaged in a segment of the entertainment industry such as recording, media or film production. A suitable candidate would be one with viable...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Digital Sales Don&#39;t Make Up for CD Sales Slump]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[US sales of digital music albums grew by 60% in the first six months of 2007, but that figure still did not offset the sales decline of CDs, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan. Total sales of albums were down by 15% for both digital and CDs, with CDs alone...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yahoo! China loses case over illegal music downloads]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING AFP &#8212; Yahoo! China lost a lawsuit filed by music industry giants including Warner Music for allegedly playing and providing links to unlicensed music, state media reported Wednesday.  A Beijing court ordered Yahoo! China to pay about 200,000 yuan (26,000 dollars) in damages for assisting downloads of unlicensed...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[WORLD RECORD FIRMS FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST YAHOO ON PIRACY]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[AsiaInfo Services    03-08-2007    World Record Firms File Lawsuit against Yahoo on Piracy    BEIJING, Mar 08, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- A couple of noted record companies worldwide have filed a lawsuit against Yahoo!, Inc., a major Internet portal, on suspected pirating...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yahoo! China sued for allegedly helping illegal music downloads]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING AFP &#8212; Music industry giants including Warner Music are jointly sueing Yahoo! China for allegedly playing and providing links to unlicensed music, state press reported on Thursday.  Led by industry group International Federation of Phonographic Industry IFPI, eleven companies including Warner Music, EMI and Sony BMG Music Entertainment...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Music giants sue Yahoo China.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Mure Dickie    Mar 07, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The issue of  music piracy in China will head to the courts again. Big industry names  including EMI, Sony BMG, Warner and Universal are joining a battle  against Yahoo China being...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Global consumer values on the Internet & the relationship of diffusion characteristics, lifestyle & trustworthiness to P2P file-sharing behavior]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABSTRACT  A study was conducted to generate a greater understanding of the global phenomenon of consumers' unauthorized peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing of music on the Internet. Diffusion of Innovation Theory (Rogers 1983) was used to interpret global consumer perceptions of this widespread online behavior. The sample for this study included...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Digital music to listeners' ears.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200701/ai_n17459731]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Michael Sainsbury    Jan 28, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Digital music is  now becoming mainstream. The 17 January 2007 report by the International  Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI indicates that digital  music now makes up 10 of music sales,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IFPI reports digital music sales double to USD2bn in 2006]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-C1995-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD  Worldwide digital music sales nearly doubled to about USD2bn last year and could amount to 25% of all global sales by 2010, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI.  The 2007 Digital Music Report from the IFPI stated that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Moving music set to kill off CDs.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200701/ai_n17460871]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Michael Sainsbury    Jan 18, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The  International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI has issued  its "Digital Music Report 2007".  The study shows that online  purchases of music are now worth $US2bn ($A2.5bn) per annum...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Digital music market worth 2.0 billion dollars in 2006: IFPI]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200701/ai_n17119318]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[LONDON AFP &#8212; Global revenue from music downloaded onto computers and mobile phones doubled to about 2.0 billion dollars (1.54 billion euros) in 2006, an international trade body has said. But the digital business accounted for only about 10 percent of total music sales in 2006, and the surge in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IFPI widens worldwide legal offensive on illegal music file sharers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200610/ai_n16932750]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[LONDON AFP &#8212; More than 8,000 new legal cases have been launched against illegal music downloaders across 17 countries in recent weeks, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI has revealed. The new round of legal action continues to target file-sharers -- people who place copyrighted songs onto Internet...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yahoo China to face legal action in music copyright dispute]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON AFP &#8212; Music industry body IFPI has said that it will pursue Yahoo China under Chinese law to stop the group infringing record companies' intellectual property rights.  John Kennedy, chairman and president of the IFPI, said in a brief statement: "Yahoo China has been blatantly infringing our members...]]></description>
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